Hello 6m DXers!

Early next week, I leave Montana and hope to be QRV on 6m from Nauru by the end of this month. 
I hope to work many of the larger stations before the first weekend in October, when the Degradation 
is lowest and 6m EME CNDX are optimum, giving smaller stations their best chance. The link to my 
planned operating schedule is on my DXpedition web page:

http://www.bigskyspaces.com/w7gj/Nauru%202018.htm


If you are interested in a contact, please read the above web page and the links to my EME DXpedition 
procedures and proper setup of JT65A before the end of the month!

http://www.bigskyspaces.com/w7gj/DXpedition%20Procedure.pdf 

http://www.bigskyspaces.com/w7gj/JT65.pdf


Please note that I am planning to use the same frequency I use for my 6m EME skeds when I am at home, 
50.190. I will always be transmitting JT65A during the first sequence. I expect to have an antenna 
site overlooking the ocean to the east, so my moonrise will coincide with moonset in western EU. I will 
try my best to site the antenna so I can operate low enough to catch the rest of Region 1 during their 
moonrise. If you are in Region 2 and have elevation, please wait until after the Region 1 moonset to 
call, since their window is so limited. Because I will have elevation, I should also be able to work 
horizon-only stations in Region 2 during their moonset, at least on days when my elevation is manageable 
(below 60 degrees). 

I expect to have periodic access to the internet, so I can post log updates and status reports on my 
web page as well as on the ON4KST EME CHAT page:

http://www.on4kst.info/chat/login.php?band=5


One last plea - PLEASE coordinate your calling frequencies using the ON4KST EME CHAT page! Do NOT just 
set your transmitter on 50.190 and blindly start calling. Contacts are much easier if you all spread out 
every 200 Hz. I will be using JT65A in WSJT10, so I will be able to find callers down 1000 and up 800 Hz 
from 1270 Hz. (If you are calling during your moonset, and your signal is doppler shifted down 100 Hz, 
make sure you don't transmit below 900 Hz!) So, if you are using WSJT-X instead of WSJT10, remember that 
all the spacings will be in reference to 1270 Hz (+400 is a WSJT-X "offset" of 1670 Hz, -200 is 1070 Hz, 
etc). And once you start calling on a frequency, STAY THERE! I will be watching that frequency for you 
to see when you are copying me ;-)

If I can find room to set it up, I hope to be able to operate FT8 (WSJT-X Version 1.9.1 r8747) with a 
dipole on 20m and 100w when the moon is not up. The HF activity is most likely to be toward the end of 
the DXpedition, but I expect C21GJ will pop up on PSKReporter when I can get on.  

I am excited about providing a new DXCC for so many people ;-) And thanks so much to all the supporters 
who already have so generously contributed toward the expenses of this DXpedition - your help is GREATLY
appreciated! It is costing as much to get my equipment over there as it is to transport me - no wonder 
C2 has never been on EME before!

GL to all and TNX again for all your help! VY 73, Lance

-- Lance Collister, W7GJ